There's little we know about the Blood Saints of the Healing Church, two of whom we meet in the game: Adella and Adeline. Although they're called "nuns," these figures fit within the game's medical metaphor quite easily. They're the nurses of Bloodborne. They're subordinate to the doctorlike Church hunters, they're all female, they're called "Sisters" and they give the playercharacter blood, an act that for hundreds of years was a symbol of religious charity that later became synonymous with nursing.

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References:

Beran, Emily. “The Pelican in Her Piety.” Kenneth Spencer Research Library Blog, 2017. https://blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/tag/...

Caparelli, Jamie Lynn. “Nursing Nuns: A History of Caring—And Changing the Course of Health Care.” American Journal of Nursing, 105, no. 8 (2005): 72.

Dinan, Susan E. Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth Century France. Ashgate Publishing, 2006.

Nelson, Siabon. Say Little, Do Much: Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

Saunders, William. “The Symbolism of the Pelican.” Catholic Education Resource Center, 2003.

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